Quotes by Skitch Henderson

• I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
• I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
• Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
• I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.
• I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
• I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.
• I listen to everything.
• I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
• Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.
• But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
• If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.
• We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
• I had had a classical education prior to that.
• And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
• Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.
• That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
• We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.
• Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.
• Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.
• While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.
• Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.
• In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.